Freshmen Competition (2)

In the third test the students had to test their mental cultivation using a tool. The tool was a blue colored semi-transparent orb. When they students held it, it would glow and the brightness would determine their mental cultivation. Most students had awakened one or two senses to a degree. The nobles again showed their superiority with resources and training. They had almost all awakened three senses, but their degree of awakening varied. None of them had reached the state of actually conjuring a thread of sense. That was until Sven. He had also awakened three senses, but he had actually managed to create a thread with one sense.

When people saw that they were shocked. Many of the teachers already had their eyes on Sven, but now he had become the candidate with most potential in their eyes. He had actually managed to create one thread, which meant that he was sure to form threads with the other two senses he had awakened. Sven had no reaction as if it were as expected and even the princess looked at Sven as if he were her rival. She herself was almost about to form a thread, but had not yet managed to done so.

When Red held the orb on his turn, the orb began glowing. "He has threads for all five senses! No wait... it dropped down to four... now three?" As others began getting confused. "Wait, it said he had formed three threads, now its saying he has awakened three senses, but not formed any threads... What's going on?"

The teacher was puzzled. "The orb may be having an issue while calibrating. Never mind it, it looks like it has settled on three senses awakened." People were confused, but when the old man saw it he had laughter within his eyes. "This kid is really sneaky. You can't hide from me you little pup!"

Soon it was time for the fighting competition and it was held as a knockout based on rankings in the test so far. First few rounds most students against Red gave up because his body alone was stronger than them. Finally after a few rounds Red had to fight against a Noble. However, it was no contest. The fight had ended quickly. With Red's profound punching and his explicit combat experience, few could even be a challenge to him, even if he hadn't cultivated qi yet.

It didn't take much, Red would simply dodge the opponent's attack and tap them on their neck to drop them unconscious. At some point, the entire freshmen class developed cold sweat. Red was methodical and cold, as if he had been a battle hardened soldier. He gave no chance to his opponent and everyone of them was down in a single move. Soon everyone gave up, even Sven and the princess realized that when it comes to combat they were no match for Red and simply conceded. The old man saw that and raged. "Humans have become a bunch of cats! Scared so easily by a pup?"

When the teacher was declaring the winner and teachers were going to ask students if they were interested in becoming their disciples, the old man suddenly appeared on the training ground. When everyone saw that they were shocked at his sudden appearance. All everyone saw was an old beggar had suddenly appeared and he looked very angry. Without allowing anyone a moment to react, the old man turned towards Red and rushed in with a powerful punch that felt like it was coalescing the powers of heaven and earth into the fist. "Little puppy, eat this!"

When others saw it they were shocked and in despair. "Despicable!" A teacher shouted as he moved in, but the old man simply snorted and the teacher was blown away by a tornado. The old man's punch arrived in front of Red, but he showed no hint of fear, in fact, the moment the old man had suddenly appeared, Red had gone on guard by instinct.

The terrifying punch approached, but Red calmly analyzed the situation with his perception as well as his now fairly profound understanding of the Asura's punch, he was able to decipher a lot of the hidden contents of this old man's punch relatively within an instant and used the movement exercise to the best of his ability and dodged the punch by a hair. But the old man did not stop at all, as if he had already expected that, a second, even more terrifying and profound punch arrived towards Red's face, but Red, as if a clairvoyant bent down to dodge that punch successfully. This sequence occurred at least five times as the old man attacked with increasing ferociousness and profundity.

By this time, people had come back to their senses and were horrified by the fact that Red had managed to doge this old beggars attack five times. However, in the sixth punch, Red realized he had reached his dodging limit and couldn't evade this attack. He had no choice, but used his most powerful punch and found the weak point in the old beggar's punch to exploit with his own. However, try as he might, Red was still blown away by the punch.

Luckily, because he exploited the flaw in the punch, he didn't suffer any serious internal injuries, though he did cough blood out. When other students saw that their hearts went cold with fear. Red was braced for another attack, but it didn't come. The old man had stopped and was thinking about something. Then he looked at Red. "Good kid, you have some capability. Come with me." Then he started walking.

Red was angry. "Why?" The old man looked at Red as if he were looking at a fool. "Are you stupid or something? I have decided to accept you as my disciple. This dump can't teach you anything useful."

But Red did not move at all. The old man got confused, and all the other teachers were shocked. At the same time the principal arrived when he heard what had occurred and saw this.

"I don't even know who you are, also you look like a swindler." Red said, shooting the old man down heartlessly.